Setting Up Home: Fungal Rules of Commensalism in the Mammalian Gut

Jigar V Desai; Michail S Lionakis

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.012

Setting Up Home: Fungal Rules of Commensalism in the Mammalian Gut

Cell Host Microbe. 2019 Mar 13;25(3):347-349. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.012.

Authors

Jigar V Desai¹, Michail S Lionakis²

Affiliations

¹ Fungal Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Fungal Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: lionakism@mail.nih.gov.

PMID: 30870617
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.012

Abstract

Candida albicans is a commensal fungus of the human gut, but also causes life-threatening systemic infections. Recent studies published in Cell Host & Microbe (Witchley et al., 2019) and Science (Tso et al., 2018) provide insights into the determinants of C. albicans commensal fitness within the mammalian gut.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Candida albicans
Candidiasis / microbiology*
Humans
Mammals
Symbiosis